| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an apparatus for safely and efficaciously providing painkiller, analgesic, amnesia agent, or other pharmaceutical substances to a patient with spontaneous respiration, a care system for alleviating patient pain, anxiety and discomfort associated with medical or surgical procedure, and also to provide an apparatus and a method for allowing a doctor to safely control or manage the pain and anxiety.SOLUTION: The care system facilitates a procedural clinician's safely and efficaciously providing painkiller, analgesic, and a certain amount of amnesia agent to a patient by providing a responsiveness monitoring system which monitors the responsiveness of the patient and generates a value representing the level of patient responsiveness. In further aspects of the invention, the responsiveness monitoring system is an automated system which includes patient query and response devices. Additional embodiments of the system and methods are directed so as to alleviate patient pain or discomfort while enabling safe drug delivery in correlation with the monitoring of patient health conditions. |
